How-To: Pop-up Cards
These pop-up card tutorials by Robert Sabuda really make it easy to get started making your own deluxe holiday cards. I love the ship and millennium falcon. [Thanks, Stefan!]
Month: November 2010
Twitter Fail Whale Hat
This Fail Whale hat from plush artist, Hine, is a Fail Whale I don’t mind seeing. [via @geekxnerd] More: Quilled Fail Whale
DIY Haunts Halloween contest ends today
Just a quick note that midnight PST marks the deadline for our DIY Haunts contest. We’ve been getting tons of last-minute entries but we’d love to get more! Any Halloween prop that uses motion, light, and sound in some way is eligible. It doesn’t even have to be one you did this year. And what […]
Lego B-17 Flying Fortress in metallic silver bricks
Here’s one for the “limiting your options is the best way to stimulate creative thinking” file. Lego does not make many elements in its metallic silver color, so Flickr user Alex Schranz had very few pieces to work with when designing the fuselage and skin of his minifig-scale B-17 bomber model. I’d say he succeeded admirably.
Renewal Notice show in Shepherdstown West Virginia
Extreme Craft guru and CRAFT pal Garth Johnson just curated a show based on his 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse book, called Renewal Notice: Recycling sucks. This is an odd rallying cry for the 21st Century, but it makes a great conversation starter. Designers, policy makers and consumers are moving beyond recycling to embrace more […]
Children’s Book Birdhouse
Dany Seo shows you how to transform a plain craft store birdhouse into a whimsical decor piece, using a children’s book. It’s a project from his book, Simply Green Parties, and he’s included a video clip from his appearance on The Today Show where he shows how to make several project from the book, including […]
DIY Arduino water meter with iPad display
Some of the folks over at Teague Labs have been noodling around with measuring water consumption. They’ve built a graphing water meter using a YellowJacket Arduino board with built-in WiFi and coolant flow meter from a PC cooling system to see how they used water around the office. Water conservation is major concern in many areas around the world. Tools that allow us to observe and correct our behaviors help us towards a path to sustainability. Schematics and source code are available if you want to try it out for yourself.
